Just for the sake of perspective I thought I'd give my two cents regarding "A Single Cycle".
A cycle is the evidence of change over time.
To understand a cycle...watch your breath.
SO, ONE CYCLE BEGINS:
As you fill up with an in-breath you expand.
The air that enters you is "Hidden" from sight.
That air is no longer a part of that which had been around you.
It had been withdrawn from the "Air Bucket" for you to use.
Your expansion takes up the "Space" that was left in the "Air Bucket" by that withdraw.
The oxygen is extracted by the lungs.
The out-breath begins as the expelled air becomes "visible" again though with a different chemical make-up.
"The Air" now returns to the "Air bucket" as the lungs contract, "withdrawing the mass", that you as a body represented in terms of space while all blown up with the inhale, and returns that space to the "Air Bucket".
So, one cycle complete.
I expounded a bit to show a relationship between the expanding self and the "Air Bucket" surroundings....."ON PURPOSE" , to point out that most of us have only been taught, "half of the truth"...about the good air in bad air out or the lungs expansion and contraction etc...but "no mention of the surrounding space" and the influence that breathing has on it or the "SHEER FACT" that breathing "IS AN INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY" that was never mentioned...was it?!!!
Now we are supposed to understand on mass...whats goin' on without a complete understanding of the basics.
We must add to our understanding of one of breath's most basic function...interaction with our surrounding "Air Bucket".
"THIS IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT UNDERSTAND"
BECAUSE......
"all cycles are identical", in basic characteristics,
the same as the "FULL VIEW" of the "interactive breath cycle" just illustrated. Short of Love, all of life's circumstances are cyclic.
So, to have an "incomplete understanding" of the breath cycle to begin with, it becomes apparent that we would have incomplete understandings when it comes to all of life's cycles, lest they were gained through higher education that dealt specifically with cycles.
Is it "HIGHER EDUCATION" to know that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?
No, we learn that at a young age and than head on off to rockets and the like.
Were you taught at a young age that your breathing was an example of that "LAW OF INTERACTIVITY"?
No not a word about the bodies interaction with space itself...space reacts to our slightest expansions and contractions and we uncounciously react to space in the same way.
In five minutes a kid could understand what a billion before died unknowing and unseeing, because this "BASIC", other half, was neglected or with held.
Understand one cycle well you'll understand all cycles well!
For those who meditate, do not consider the breath as life itself but rather the basic way that we interact with the space surrounding us!
An aggitated man transmitts his agitation through space,to all men, dependent upon the distance between the aggitated source and the recieving destination!
Until one is able to understand life as an infinate number of cycles, each made up by a spectrum of evolving possibilities is there any understanding of the times at hand.
Understanding cycles is the beginning!
LaLePoP'
